See also: dế trũi

Esperanto edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French détruire, ultimately from Latin dēstruō (I destroy, demolish, ruin). Compare Italian distruggere, Portuguese and Spanish destruir, German destruieren, English destroy, Romanian distruge.

Pronunciation edit

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  • IPA(key): [deˈtrui]
  • Rhymes: -ui
  • Hyphenation: de‧tru‧i

Verb edit

detrui (present detruas, past detruis, future detruos, conditional detruus, volitive detruu)

  1. (transitive) to destroy
    • 1999, Trans. Edwin Grobe, Mark Twain: Tri Noveloj[1]:
      Vi metu monon en la manojn de tia viro nur se vi deziras lin detrui, tio estas fakto.
      You put money in the hands of that type of man only if you want to destroy him, that is a fact.

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